Motivational Quotes

Government

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Best Quotes about Government

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

10.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

12.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

16.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

17.

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

18.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

21.

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Baluch, Joy

24.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

25.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.

Noonan, Peggy

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

27.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Durant, William J.

28.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

32.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

34.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.

Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

40.

The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

41.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

42.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

45.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

49.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu